bone-dry

How To Use bone-dry In A Sentence

• Now research shows how one plant does this: The desert rhubarb plant captures 16 times more liquid from its bone-dry surroundings than neighboring plants.
• The badlands are significant due to the plethora of fossils and dinosaur bones that have been recovered in the slowly eroding hoodoos, narrow valleys and bone-dry coulees.
• He's 72 now, and there's a certain cussedness to his bone-dry directorial style that suggests it's a job he should now do less.
• The third daughter thought for a while, then unslung her unwieldy bag, placed it on the bone-dry ground, and opened it.
• Again I swallowed, trying to lubricate a mouth gone bone-dry. NIGHT SISTERS
• Again I swallowed, trying to lubricate a mouth gone bone-dry. NIGHT SISTERS
• Preserved by the bone-dry Atacama Desert and an elaborate deathbed treatment, the oldest mummies in the world have gone on display in the Chilean capital, Santiago.
• Again I swallowed, trying to lubricate a mouth gone bone-dry. NIGHT SISTERS
• bone-dry leaves are a fire hazard
• Another apatite researcher, Francis McCubbin of the University of New Mexico, points out that one person's "bone-dry" could be another person's "relatively damp.